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Ashmolean Launches 'This Is What You Get' Exhibition of Yorke and Donwood Artwork

This Is What You Get immerses visitors in a three-decade collaboration between Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood through more than 180 works

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Overview

  • The exhibition opened on August 6, 2025, at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and runs until January 11, 2026.
  • This is the first public gallery show to bring together the visual art of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood.
  • The retrospective traces their three-decade experimental processes with sketches, paintings, etchings and digital compositions.
  • Prior to public access, the museum released Instagram sneak peeks of rare items such as Yorke’s 1995 ‘Karma Police’ notebook page and early album-cover studies.
  • Students from Cheney School’s Arts Council–accredited Rumble Museum contributed songs, poems, artwork and videos that appear on a dedicated exhibition webpage.